Maren Ueland

Maren Ueland (1990-17 December 2018) was a Norwegian woman who was murdered and beheaded by the Islamic State while traveling through the remote Atlas Mountains in Morocco in 2018.

Biography
Maren Ueland was born in 1990, and she and Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen attended university in southern Norway during the 2010s. In 2018, the two of them sought to hike from the Moroccan village of Imlil to Mount Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak, and they travelled to Morocco. Unfortunately, they were abducted by Islamic State militants Rachid Afatti, Ouziad Younes, and Ejjoud Abdessamad and taken to an area 6.2 miles from the village. There, both of them were killed, with Ueland being beheaded in an IS propaganda video.